The Supreme Court announced this week that it will soon hear a new case, Roper v. Simmons, regarding the constitutionality of executing minors. For years, the high court has tacitly approved of executing teenagers who were at least 16 years old when they committed their crime by allowing states to set their own minimum age limit. Read more...

When the invasion of Iraq was launched last March, a huge number of private military contractors went into war alongside coalition forces. These were the employees of private companies, the products of outside agencies who have become so valuable to modern western warfare that without them the Iraq war would have been a much more difficult war for the United States to fight. Read more...

Campus eateries strive to provide the UCLA community with an array of culinary delights. But the hefty price tag on food is enough to give a person indigestion. Read more...

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On Jan. 17, UCLA Professor Jayne Spencer passed away. As a lecturer for the history department, the chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Disability, the director of Computers without Borders, the coordinator for the Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities and a leader in the movement to establish disabilities studies at UCLA, Spencer has certainly left her mark on campus. Read more...

Last Monday night in Iowa the Democrats began the delegate selection process, which will eventually determine the candidate who will run against President Bush in November. Read more...

By Jerson Castillo Dana Perino, the associate director for communications for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, defended the Bush administration Tuesday (“Bush serious about Clear Skies,” Viewpoint) in response to UCLA student Mike Bitondo’s column, “Bush’s attractive policy titles hide truth” (Viewpoint, Jan. Read more...